Sounding toy.



J. BERG.

SOUNDING TOY.

APPLICATION FILED JULY 6,1909.

Patented Dec. 7, 1909.

Inventor Witnesses 57271 Bard Attorneys.

UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

JOHN BERG, OF CHICAGO, ILLINOIS.

SOUNDING TOY.

T 0 all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, JOHN Buns, a citizen of the United States, and resident of Chicago, in the county of Cook and State of Illinois, have invented certain new and useful In'iprovements in Sounding Toys; and I do hereby declare that the following description of my said invention, taken in connection with the accompanying sheet of drawings, forms a full, clear, and exact specification, which will enable others skilled in the art to which it appertains to make and use the same.

This invention has general reference to improvements in sound-prodi'lcing toys; and it consists, essentially in the novel and peculiar combination of parts, and details of construction, as hereinafter first fully set forth and described, and then pointed out in the claims.

The object of this invention is the production of a toy which when struck upon an object will produce a loud report similar to that produced by fire-crackers, or torpedoes when exploding, but which shall be perfectly harmless and in which the ammunition employed shall be practically without cost and everywhere available. It shall also include, when desired, a whistle, horn or other instrument producing a, more or less, musical sound, the device being eminently suitable for children and others for celebrating our national holiday, July 4th, and for other similar occasions where noise-producing instruments are in vogue.

In the drawings already referred to, Figure 1 is an elevation of my sound-producing toy. Fig. 2 is a plan of the same. Fig. 8 is a longitudinal sectional elevation of a portion of the device drawn on line as w of Fig. 2. Fig. 4 is a plan of the upper member of the report, or sound-producing device detached. Fig. 5 is a plan of the intermediary member thereof. Fig. 6 is a. sectional view, slightly enlarged, of portions of the device shown in Fig. 3.

A in these drawings designates a hemi spherical resilient body, made preferably from rubber, and of sufiicient thickness to recover its shape after it has been compressed by being struck. This body A is cemented or otherwise secured, as for instance, by wiring 12, to an annular band, B, comprising a rim 13 having an inwardly projecting flange 14 thereby producing an Specification of Letters Patent.

Application filed July 6, 1909.

Patented Dec. '7, 1909.

Serial No. 506,064.

opening 15 the object of which will hereinafter more fully appear.

C designates an annulus which I shall hereinafter term the intermediary member. It comprises an annular rim 16 having upper and lower laterally-projecting flanges 17, 18, the outer diameter of which is approximately the same as the outer diameter of the lower annular member B.

I) indicates the upper annular member. It is cup-shaped, or similar to the cover of a can or box, there being in its, as it were, bottom 19, an annular opening 20, corresponding in diameter to the inner diameter of the intern'iediary C. Its downwardly-projecting rim 21 has an internal diameter equaling the outer diameter of the lateral flange l? on the intermediary C, so that this rim and the flange form a die and punch as will here inafter more fully appear.

E is a clasp hinged to the rim 13 of the lower member B and reaching over the top surface of the upper member I). Its object is to securely hold the various members of the report or noise-producing elements of this device in proper juxtaposition.

F is an elastic bow, it being a piece of wire of suitable diameter formed into U- shape. Of the, approximately parallel, members 22, 23 of this wire bow, the outer end of the member 22 is suitably secured to the top-member D, while the lower member is fastened to the lower member B. To this lover member 23, and near its outer end there is secured a blade-spring 2st, with one end, the other end of which is fastened to the intermediary C, the arrangement of these three members B, C, D being such that when they are in proper juxtaposition their center-lines are in coincidence.

G designates the handle for this device, by which it is manipulated. This handle may be of any desired contour as long as it may be conveniently grasped by the hand, or it may, and I prefer that it shall be a noiseproducing instrument, such as a whistle or a horn, &c., and in the drawings I have shown two horns 25, 26, jointed to a single mouthpiece 27, said mouthpiece having suitable reeds, not shown, to produce the musical sound desired. The bow F is suitably fastened at its apex as well as with one of its members, to one of these horns the other member of said bow being free to change its contour when the members D, C and B are brought into juxtaposition. Normally, these three members B, C, 1), stand a suitable distance apart, as shown in Fig. 1, so that a sheetof paper 27, may be placed into the space between the members D and Q, and another sheet 28, located in the space between the members C and B.

H designates a clamp. It is hook-shaped and movably located upon the member 23 of the bow and adapted to engage the member thereof by its hook 29.

In operation, the two sheets or pieces of paper, which may be pieces torn from a newspaper &c., are located in position as described. Then, the three members B, C, D, are pushed into juxtaposition, one above the other, and the clasp E caused to engage the upper member D and the clamp H to engage the member 22 of the bow F. In this position the device is locked and is ready for a shot that is to say to produce a report similar to that of a pistol being fired, or a toy-torpedo being exploded, by striking the hemispherical shell A which causes the latter to collapse and the air confined therein to be compressed until the pressure in said shell causes the rupture of the paperdislts 27, 28 and thereby produce the desired result. As soon as air enters the hemispherical shell A after the rupture of the paper-disks, the said shell will resume its normal inflated condition ready for the next shot.

It will now be observed that this device answers all the purposes of noise-producers, such as toy-pistols, revolvers, toy torpedoes, tire-crackers &c., without their inherent dangers of injury to the persons using the same. It will also be observed that this device is operative without the use of the intermedia C by employing but one piece of paper between the upper ll'lQiHbCl' D and the lower member B, and I desire it understood that I do not wish to confine myself to the employn'ient of this intermediary C, although I prefer its use for the reason that when two paper-disks are employed the volume of sound when they are ruptured, is materially increased.

I have heretofore mentioned that the rim 21 of the upper member D serves, in conjunction with the flange 17 of the intermediary C, as a punch and die so that when the piece of paper 2'? is placed between the parts D, C, and these parts are pushed together, the surplus paper will be sheared off so that but a circular disk will be located in the annular space 30 of the upper member D. It will be further observed that, when the members B, C, and D are in juxtaposition,

the paper 28 is tightly clamped. between the opposing surfaces of their flanges l t and 1S, and the paper..27 tightly clamped between the opposing surfaces of the flange 17 and the inner surface of the bottom 19, so that the interior spaces of these members as well as the hemispherical shell are hermetically, or approximately hermetically sealed and air prevented from escaping therefrom.

Having thus fully described this invention, I claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent of the United States 1. A toy, comprising a handle; a bowshaped part to which said handle is atlixed; an upper, cup-shaped, member having an opening in its bottom; a lower annular member having an inwardlyprojecting flange; a resilient bag secured to said. lower annular member, and suitable clampingmembers adapted to hold the upper and lower members in proper juxtaposition said upper member being secured to one, and the lower member being fastened to the other, member of said bow-shaped part.

2. A toy, comprising a handle, said handle being an instrument adapted to emit a sound when blown into, a U-shaped part attached to said handle; an upper, cup-shaped, member, there being an opening in the bottom of said cup-shaped member; a lower annular member having a flange; a resilient, hemispherical shell secured to said lower annular member, and suitable clamping-devices adapted to hold the upper and lower members in proper juxtaposition, said members being secured to the U-shaped part, as described.

3. it toy, comprising a handle; a bow shaped part to which said handle is attached; an upper, cup-shaped, member having an opening in its bottom; a lower, annular member having an inwardly-projccting flange; an intermediary member flexibly suspended between the upper and lower members, a clasp, hinged to said lower member and adapted to engage the said upper member, said upper and lower members being secured to said bow-shaped part, there being a clamp on one member of said bowshaped part adapted for engagement with the other member of said bow-shaped part.

In testimony that I claim the foregoing as my invention I have hereunto set my hand in the presence of two subscribing witnesses.

JOHN BERG.

Attest:

l\lICII.\EL J. STARK, A. C. PETERSON. 

